wok-6.x view otf-gfs/description.txt @ rev 24852
updated libxml2, libxml2-dev, libxml2-python and libxml2-tools (2.9.10 -> 2.9.12)
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
---|---|
date | Mon Mar 28 13:43:56 2022 +0100 (2022-03-28) |
parents | |
children |
line source
1 Type design of Greek fonts was until very recently exclusively
2 imported from Western European foundries.
3 During the Rennaissance the typecutters followed the late
4 byzantine hand, which was full of ligatures and abbrevations
5 of letters. This practice continued until the Age of Enlightenment,
6 when the practical simplification of the Greek typecase was
7 followed by a quest for an "ideal" Greek type design under the
8 influence of Romanticism.
9 The digital redesigns of several historic fonts offered here
10 chart this historic evolution of Greek type design.